Plants to 1 cm. Stem leaves erect-appressed when dry, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 mm; margins recurved to broadly revolute, incurved to form channel at apex, serrate at apex; apex cuspidate; basal laminal cells narrowly rectangular, walls thin, not nodose; distal cells 8-13µm, 1-stratose, papillae 2 per cell, conic, small. Specialized asexual reproduction absent. Sexual condition gonioautoicous or cladautoicous. Seta to 1 mm. Capsule ± emergent or rarely immersed, oblong to oblong-cylindric when old, 1.3-2 mm, 8-ribbed entire length when dry, constricted below mouth when dry; stomata immersed; peristome double; prostome absent; exostome teeth 8, reflexed, densely and evenly papillose; endostome segments 8, not well developed, of 1 or 2 rows of cells, papillose, sometimes coarsely so. Calyptra oblong-conic, smooth, hairy, hairs papillose. Spores 14-24 µm.
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